For the purposes of this section and sections 22a-134a to 22a-134e, inclusive, and sections 22a-134h and 22a-134i:

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(1) “Transfer of establishment” means any transaction or proceeding, on or before the date regulations are adopted pursuant to section 22a-134tt, through which an establishment undergoes a change in ownership, but does not mean:

(A) Conveyance or extinguishment of an easement;

(B) Conveyance of an establishment through (i) a foreclosure, as defined in subsection (b) of section 22a-452f, (ii) foreclosure of a municipal tax lien pursuant to section 12-181, (iii) a tax warrant sale pursuant to section 12-157, (iv) a transfer of title to a municipality by deed in lieu of foreclosure, (v) an exercise of eminent domain by a municipality or pursuant to section 8-128, 8-169e or 8-193 or by condemnation pursuant to section 32-224 or purchase pursuant to a resolution by the legislative body of a municipality authorizing the acquisition through eminent domain for establishments that also meet the definition of a brownfield, as defined in section 32-760, or (vi) a subsequent transfer by such municipality that has acquired the property pursuant to any mechanism described in subparagraphs (B)(i) to (B)(iii), inclusive, of this subdivision or pursuant to the remedial action and redevelopment municipal grant program established in section 32-763, provided (I) the party acquiring the property from the municipality did not establish, create or contribute to the contamination at the establishment and is not affiliated with any person who established, created or contributed to such contamination or with any person who is or was an owner or certifying party for the establishment, and (II) on or before the date the party acquires the property from the municipality, such party or municipality enters and subsequently remains in the voluntary remediation program administered by the commissioner pursuant to section 22a-133x and remains in compliance with schedules and approvals issued by the commissioner. For purposes of this subparagraph, subsequent transfer by a municipality includes any transfer to, from or between a municipality, municipal economic development agency or entity created or operating under chapter 130 or 132, a nonprofit economic development corporation formed to promote the common good, general welfare and economic development of a municipality that is funded, either directly or through in-kind services, in part by a municipality, a nonstock corporation or limited liability company controlled or established by a municipality, municipal economic development agency or entity created or operating under chapter 130 or 132, or a Connecticut brownfield land bank;

(C) Conveyance of a deed in lieu of foreclosure to a lender, as defined in and that qualifies for the secured lender exemption pursuant to subsection (b) of section 22a-452f;

(D) Conveyance of a security interest, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (b) of section 22a-452f;

(E) Termination of a lease and conveyance, assignment or execution of a lease for a period less than ninety-nine years including conveyance, assignment or execution of a lease with options or similar terms that will extend the period of the leasehold to ninety-nine years, or from the commencement of the leasehold, ninety-nine years, including conveyance, assignment or execution of a lease with options or similar terms that will extend the period of the leasehold to ninety-nine years, or from the commencement of the leasehold;

(F) Any change in ownership approved by the Probate Court;

(G) Devolution of title to a surviving joint tenant, or to a trustee, executor or administrator under the terms of a testamentary trust or will, or by intestate succession;

(H) Corporate reorganization not substantially affecting the ownership of the establishment;

(I) The issuance of stock or other securities of an entity which owns or operates an establishment;

(J) The transfer of stock, securities or other ownership interests representing fifty per cent or less of the ownership of the entity that owns or operates the establishment;

(K) Any conveyance of an interest in an establishment where the transferor is the sibling, spouse, child, parent, grandparent, child of a sibling or sibling of a parent of the transferee;

(L) Conveyance of an interest in an establishment to a trustee of an inter vivos trust created by the transferor solely for the benefit of one or more siblings, spouses, children, parents, grandchildren, children of a sibling or siblings of a parent of the transferor;

(M) Any conveyance of a portion of a parcel upon which portion no establishment is or has been located and upon which there has not occurred a discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste, provided either the area of such portion is not greater than fifty per cent of the area of such parcel or written notice of such proposed conveyance and an environmental condition assessment form for such parcel is provided to the commissioner sixty days prior to such conveyance;

(N) Conveyance of a service station, as defined in subdivision (5) of this section;

(O) Any conveyance of an establishment which, prior to July 1, 1997, had been developed solely for residential use and such use has not changed;

(P) Any conveyance of an establishment to any entity created or operating under chapter 130 or 132, or to an urban rehabilitation agency, as defined in section 8-292, or to a municipality under section 32-224, or to Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated or any subsidiary of the corporation;

(Q) Any conveyance of a parcel in connection with the acquisition of properties to effectuate the development of the overall project, as defined in section 32-651;

(R) The conversion of a general or limited partnership to a limited liability company;

(S) The transfer of general partnership property held in the names of all of its general partners to a general partnership which includes as general partners immediately after the transfer all of the same persons as were general partners immediately prior to the transfer;

(T) The transfer of general partnership property held in the names of all of its general partners to a limited liability company which includes as members immediately after the transfer all of the same persons as were general partners immediately prior to the transfer;

(U) Acquisition of an establishment by any governmental or quasi-governmental condemning authority;

(V) Conveyance of a unit in a residential common interest community;

(W) Acquisition and all subsequent transfers of an establishment (i) that is in the abandoned brownfield cleanup program established pursuant to section 32-768 or the brownfield remediation and revitalization program established pursuant to section 32-769, provided such establishment is in compliance with any applicable provisions of the general statutes, or (ii) by a Connecticut brownfield land bank, provided such establishment was entered into a remediation or liability relief program under section 22a-133x, 22a-133y, 32-768 or 32-769 and the transferor of such establishment is in compliance with such program at the time of transfer of such establishment or has completed the requirements of such program;

(X) Any transfer of title from a municipality to a nonprofit organization or from any entity to a nonprofit organization, as ordered or approved by a bankruptcy court;

(Y) Conveyance from the Department of Transportation to the Connecticut Airport Authority of any properties comprising (i) Bradley International Airport and all related improvements and facilities now in existence and as hereafter acquired, added, extended, improved and equipped, including any property or facilities purchased with funds of, or revenues derived from, Bradley International Airport, and any other property or facilities allocated by the state, the Connecticut Airport Authority or otherwise to Bradley International Airport, (ii) the state-owned and operated general aviation airports, including Danielson Airport, Groton/New London Airport, Hartford Brainard Airport, Waterbury-Oxford Airport and Windham Airport and any such other airport as may be owned, operated or managed by the Connecticut Airport Authority and designated as general aviation airports, (iii) any other airport as may be owned, operated or managed by the Connecticut Airport Authority, and (iv) any airport site or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, any restricted landing areas and any air navigation facilities; or

(Z) The change in the name of a limited liability company as an amendment to such company’s certificate of organization, pursuant to section 34-247a.

(2) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or the designated agent of the commissioner;

(3) “Establishment” means any real property at which or any business operation from which (A) on or after November 19, 1980, there was generated more than one hundred kilograms of hazardous waste in any one month, (B) hazardous waste generated at a different location was recycled, reclaimed, reused, stored, handled, treated, transported or disposed of, (C) the process of dry cleaning was conducted on or after May 1, 1967, (D) furniture stripping was conducted on or after May 1, 1967, or (E) a vehicle body repair facility was located on or after May 1, 1967. For the purposes of subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, “hazardous waste” does not include universal waste. For the purposes of filing a Form I, Form II, Form III or Form IV after October 1, 2020, if a property or business operation is an establishment, such establishment includes the entire parcel or parcels on which any such establishment is located, except as otherwise provided in this subdivision. If a property is or has been leased to two or more tenants or is or was simultaneously occupied by the owner of such property and a tenant, “establishment” means the areas on which the business operation is or was located, including the entire portion of the property leased to such business operation and any other area of such property used or occupied by such business operation. If a property is a commercial or industrial unit in a common interest community, “establishment” means the unit, the limited common elements under exclusive use of the unit owner on which the establishment is or was operated and any portion of the common area used or occupied by such unit owner. If a business operation is an establishment, such establishment includes the real property on which such business operation is or was located and the entire portion of such property used or occupied by such business operation. “Establishment” does not include any real property or any business operation from which more than one hundred kilograms of hazardous waste was generated in any one month solely as a result of either:

(i) The one-time generation of hazardous waste in any one month, as a result of either the first time such waste was generated or such a one-time generation since the last time a Form I, Form II, Form III or Form IV was required to be submitted; or

(ii) One or more of the following:

(I) Remediation of polluted soil, groundwater or sediment;

(II) The removal or abatement of building materials or removal of materials used for maintaining or operating a building;

(III) The removal of unused chemicals or materials as a result of the emptying or clearing out of a building, provided such removal is supported by facts reasonably established at the time of such removal; or

(IV) The complete cessation of a business operation, provided the waste is removed not later than ninety days after such cessation and such cessation is supported by facts reasonably established at the time of such cessation. “Establishment” does not include any real property or business operation that qualifies as an establishment solely as a result of the generation of more than one hundred kilograms of universal waste in a calendar month, the storage, handling or transportation of universal waste generated at a different location, or activities undertaken at a universal waste transfer facility, provided any such real property or business operation does not otherwise qualify as an establishment; there has been no discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of a universal waste or a constituent of universal waste that is a hazardous substance at or from such real property or business operation; and universal waste is not also recycled, treated, except for treatment of a universal waste pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 273.13(a)(2) or (c)(2) or 40 C.F.R. § 273.33(a)(2) or (c)(2), or disposed of at such real property or business operation. When transferring real property or a business that comprises the entire establishment, such real property or business shall not be an establishment if the conditions set forth in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (l) of section 22a-134a apply to such real property or business, and the time for the commissioner to conduct an audit pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (g) of section 22a-134a passed without the commissioner requiring any further action or the commissioner issued a no audit letter or a successful audit closure letter pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (g) of section 22a-134a;

(4) “Hazardous waste” means any waste which is (A) hazardous waste identified in accordance with Section 3001 of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, 42 USC 6901 et seq., (B) hazardous waste identified by regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, or (C) polychlorinated biphenyls in concentrations greater than fifty parts per million except that sewage, sewage sludge and lead paint abatement wastes shall not be considered to be hazardous waste for the purposes of this section and sections 22a-134a to 22a-134d, inclusive;

(5) “Service station” means a retail operation involving the resale of motor vehicle fuel including, but not limited to, gasoline, diesel fuel and kerosene and which operation does not otherwise meet the definition of an establishment;

(6) “Certifying party” means, in the case of a Form III or Form IV, a person associated with the transfer of an establishment who signs a Form III or Form IV and who agrees to investigate the parcel in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and to remediate pollution caused by any release at the establishment in accordance with the remediation standards and, in the case of a Form I or Form II, a transferor of an establishment who signs the certification on a Form I or II;

(7) “Party associated with the transfer of an establishment” means (A) the present or past owner or operator of the establishment, (B) the owner of the real property on which the establishment is located, (C) the transferor, transferee, lender, guarantor or indemnitor, (D) the business entity which operates or operated the establishment, or (E) the state;

(8) “Remediation standards” means regulations adopted by the commissioner pursuant to section 22a-133k;

(9) “Parcel” means piece, parcel or tract of land which constitutes an establishment, as defined in subdivision (3) of this section, or on which is or was located any business operation which constitutes an establishment;

(10) “Form I” means a written certification by the transferor of an establishment on a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner that: (A) No discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or a hazardous substance has occurred at the establishment which certification is based on an investigation of the parcel in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines, or (B) no discharge spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste has occurred at the establishment based upon an investigation of the parcel in accordance with the prevailing standards and guidelines and the commissioner has determined, in writing, or a licensed environmental professional has verified, in writing, that any discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of a hazardous substance has been remediated in accordance with the remediation standards and that since any such written approval or verification, including any approval or verification for a portion of an establishment, no discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or hazardous substances has occurred at any portion of the establishment;

(11) “Form II” means a written certification by the transferor of an establishment on a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner that the parcel has been investigated in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and that (A) any pollution caused by a discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or a hazardous substance which has occurred from the establishment has been remediated in accordance with the remediation standards and that the remediation has been approved in writing by the commissioner or has been verified pursuant to section 22a-133x or 22a-134a, in writing, attached to such form by a licensed environmental professional to have been performed in accordance with the remediation standards and that since any such written approval or verification, including any approval or verification for a portion of an establishment, no discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or hazardous substances has occurred at any portion of the establishment, (B) the commissioner has determined in writing or a licensed environmental professional has verified pursuant to section 22a-133x or 22a-134a, in writing, attached to the form that no remediation is necessary to achieve compliance with the remediation standards, or (C) a Form IV verification was previously submitted to the commissioner and, since the date of the submission of the Form IV, no discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or a hazardous substance has occurred at the establishment, which certification is based on an investigation of the parcel in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines;

(12) “Form III” means a written certification signed by a certifying party on a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner, which certification states that (A) a discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or a hazardous substance has occurred at the establishment or the environmental conditions at the establishment are unknown, and (B) that the person signing the certification agrees to investigate the parcel in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and to remediate pollution caused by any release of a hazardous waste or hazardous substance from the establishment in accordance with the remediation standards;

(13) “Form IV” means a written certification signed by one or more certifying parties on a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner and which is accompanied by a written determination by the commissioner or by a verification by a licensed environmental professional pursuant to section 22a-134a or 22a-133x, which certification states and is accompanied by documentation demonstrating that the parcel has been investigated in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and that (A) there has been a discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage or filtration of hazardous waste or a hazardous substance on the establishment, and (B) all actions to remediate any pollution caused by any release at the establishment have been taken in accordance with the remediation standards except groundwater monitoring or the recording of an environmental use restriction, and (C) the person or persons signing the certification agree, in accordance with the representations made in the form, to conduct groundwater monitoring in accordance with the remediation standards and if further investigation and remediation are necessary to take further action to investigate the establishment in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and to remediate the establishment in accordance with the remediation standards;

(14) “Person” means person, as defined in section 22a-2;

(15) “Remediate” means to contain, remove or abate pollution, potential sources of pollution and substances in soil or sediment which pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment and includes, but is not limited to, the reduction of pollution by natural attenuation;

(16) “Licensed environmental professional” means an environmental professional licensed pursuant to section 22a-133v;

(17) “Environmental condition assessment form” means a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner, prepared under the supervision of a licensed environmental professional, and executed by (A) the certifying party under sections 22a-134 to 22a-134e, inclusive, or (B) the owner of the property under section 22a-133x which form describes the environmental conditions at the parcel;

(18) “Pollution” means pollution, as defined in section 22a-423;

(19) “Verification” means the rendering of a written opinion by a licensed environmental professional on a form prescribed by the commissioner that an investigation of the parcel has been performed in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines and that the establishment has been remediated in accordance with the remediation standards;

(20) “Vehicle” means any motorized device for conveying persons or objects except for an aircraft, boat, railroad car or engine, or farm tractor;

(21) “Business operation” means any business that has, or any series of substantially similar businesses that have, operated continuously or with only brief interruption on the same parcel, either with a single owner or successive owners;

(22) “Corporate reorganization not substantially affecting the ownership of an establishment” means implementation of a business plan to restructure a corporation through a merger, spin-off or other plan or reorganization under which the direct owner of the establishment does not change;

(23) “Form IV verification” means the rendering of a written opinion by a licensed environmental professional, after a Form IV has been filed, that groundwater monitoring or the recording of an environmental use restriction has been completed in accordance with the Form IV;

(24) “Hazardous substance” means hazardous substance, as defined in Section 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 USC 9601, or a petroleum product or by-product for which there are remediation standards adopted pursuant to section 22a-133k or for which such remediation standards have a process for calculating the numeric criteria of such substance;

(25) “Sediment” means unconsolidated material occurring in a stream, pond, wetland estuary or other water body;

(26) “Universal waste” means batteries, pesticides, thermostats, lamps and used electronics regulated as a universal waste under regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (c) of section 22a-449. “Universal waste” does not mean (A) batteries, pesticides, thermostats and lamps that are not covered under 40 C.F.R. part 273, or (B) used electronics that are not regulated as a universal waste under regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (c) of section 22a-449;

(27) “Universal waste transfer facility” means any facility related to transportation, including loading docks, parking areas, storage areas and other similar areas where shipments of universal waste are held during the normal course of transportation for ten days or less;

(28) “Interim verification” means a written opinion by a licensed environmental professional, on a form prescribed by the commissioner, that (A) the investigation has been performed in accordance with prevailing standards and guidelines, (B) the remediation has been completed in accordance with the remediation standards, except that, for remediation standards for groundwater, the selected remedy is in operation but has not achieved the remediation standards for groundwater, (C) identifies the long-term remedy being implemented to achieve groundwater standards, the estimated duration of such remedy, and the ongoing operation and maintenance requirements for continued operation of such remedy, and (D) there are no current exposure pathways to the groundwater area that have not yet met the remediation standards;

(29) “Connecticut brownfield land bank” has the same meaning as provided in section 32-760.